1st Midterm of the Year

I got 101/110 for my Econ 50 midterm!! The amazing thing is half the time I don't pay attention in lectures and I didn't really put a LOT of effort into studying for the midterm. Somehow grades still do matter to me but it's not as big a deal as before, so I didn't get so stressed this time which I guess was good. Anyway praise God cos the mean was like 84 so I'm way above it (I think).

Just got back from LA last night. Drove down on Friday morning to perform at Claremont College on Fri night. Got a speeding ticket on the way down. :P I'm not too bummed by it now... I think. Performance itself went pretty well.

Yesterday was great, 2 other guys came with me in my car to check out Hollywood Boulevard - it's really surprisingly ghetto and run-down. The cameras make it look so glitzy and all but it's ALL fake... the sidewalks with the stars with celebrities' names on them aren't that big, and the boulevard itself is mostly just like any other street.

Anyway after that we happened to bump into the other two cars not too far out of LA on the freeway. Damn cool. Divine planning perhaps. :) Then we got lunch (best Mexican food I've ever had) and then drove along Highway 1 which is a highway that hugs the pacific (west) coast. VERY pretty. We stopped to watch the sunset... it's amazing when you kill the engine and there's absolutely no sound around you, and you just watch those far away waves silently, slowly slowly creeping into shore. Really gave me a different sense of what God's peace means.

I'll post pictures when I have them. Still haven't got a SD card reader or a cable for my camera. But Joe (one of the guys in my car) took some pictures so I'll post them when I have them.